Product Description

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products to deliver the most complete photo and video-editing solution. Enjoy all the great functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software as well as additional functionality that lets you easily create with photos and videos. Take advantage of one-click fixes, step-by-step assistance that makes editing easier than ever. Then explore advanced options for making finer adjustments; add artistic effects; and experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools. Make customized photo creations using new themed layouts and even create dazzling interactive web galleries. Take advantage of online offerings to upload photos and creations directly to the web, order prints, and more, and easily share on mobile phones and other devices. Easily share your movies on DVD or Blu-ray Disc, broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing website, or play movies on mobile phones and other devices. Share photos in fun, imaginative ways Easily find and view all your photos and video clips Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options Show your style with amazing effects Share your movies on YouTube, your own website, disc, and virtually anywhere else Access files from a central location, no matter which product you're using Use new compositing tools to create perfect group photos Jump-start your video editing with Movie Themes System requirements - Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Intel Centrino 1.3GHz or compatible processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista, 256MB RAM, Color monitor with 16-bit color video card, 1024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less, Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 4.5GB of free space, DVD-ROM drive and

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #562 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 29180383
• Released on: 2007-10-05
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 12.00" w x 1.00" l, .75 pounds

Features

• Make your photos look their best with easy-to-use editing tools
• Easily find and view all your photos and video clips
• Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options
• Show your style with amazing video and audio effects
• Share on YouTube, your own website, DVD, HD Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices

Amazon.com
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products to deliver the most complete photo- and video-editing solution at a great value. Get all the functionality of the individual products plus the ability to easily access and use photos and video clips in either product to create cinematic slide shows, dramatic freeze-frame effects, and more. Then show off your finished projects on personalized DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs or on the web.

Entertain with photos and videos Bring photos and videos together in unique creations that you can share on YouTube, your own website, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and virtually anywhere else.

Access files from a central location, no matter which product you're using.

Jump-start your video editing with Movie Themes.

Easily combine photos and videos in entertaining ways

• Enjoy all the great functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software as well as additional functionality that lets you easily create with photos and videos--all for a great value.
• Access all of your photos and video clips from one convenient place, no matter which product you're using.
• Create a traditional photo slide show, and then add video-style effects and transitions and add motion to your text. Preview the slide show in full screen and then burn it to disc or upload to the web to share with your family and friends.
• Capture a single video frame, add text, graphics, and other enhancements, and then put the frame back in your movie for a fun or dramatic freeze-frame effect. Or grab a video frame and create a personalized disc cover for your movie.

Bring out the best in your photos

• Take advantage of one-click fixes, step-by-step assistance that makes editing easier than ever. Then explore advanced options for making finer adjustments; add artistic effects; and experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools.
• Make customized photo creations using new themed layouts and even create dazzling interactive web galleries.
• Take advantage of one-click fixes, step-by-step assistance that makes editing easier than ever. Then explore advanced options for making finer adjustments; add artistic effects; and experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools.
• Make customized photo creations using new themed layouts and even create dazzling interactive web galleries. Take advantage of online offerings to upload photos and creations directly to the web, order prints, and more, and easily share on mobile phones and other devices.
• Keep photos and video clips at your fingertips with faster, easier downloading, custom tagging, powerful search options, and viewing choices that allow you to sort and find your photos the way that works best for you. And now you can scroll through, tag, view, and retrieve photos faster--even when your library grows to include thousands of photos.

Create fun movies in as little as 15 minutes

• Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for making movies. Move footage from camera to disc in a few simple steps, or quickly transform a sequence of scenes into a polished movie by adding a Movie Theme, or create your story with drag-and-drop ease in the Sceneline.
• Give your movies professional polish with a personal touch by adding animated titles; custom, interactive disc menus; rich audio; and stunning visual effects and transitions.
• Easily share your movies on DVD or Blu-ray Disc, broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing website, or play movies on mobile phones and other devices.

Customer Reviews

Most of the power at a fraction of the price
The Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4 bundle is one of the best values for the home photo/video editor. I use the full version of Photoshop and a fairly pricey video editing (Sony Vegas) package at our business, but needed a powerful yet inexpensive (a relative term, I know) package to use at home. Here are my observations on each package:

Photoshop Elements 6:

At first glance I was disappointed and thought I had made a big mistake as the default interface is fairly simplistic (which is a GOOD thing for most users). Being used to the some of the more advance features (such as "Curves") and the ability to load in templates, the one click tools (while great for the casual user) were a little underwhelming. Not to fear though, the more powerful tools are still available by getting into a different editing mode, which I would have found faster if I had read the somewhat skimpy manual. All in all, it is nice to be able to "one click fix" all of my family photos, and still have the ability to get more powerful tools for the work I bring home with me. This is a fantastic value for the money!

Premiere Elements 4:

Since most of my editing is done on higher dollar packages at work, I was just looking for a home software package to quickly assemble clips, make photo slide shows, and to convert clips for upload to YouTube. This package surprised me with it's drag and drop ease of use. It is fantastic for the home user and does exactly what it says it is going to do. One note about the YouTube integration, it is nothing short of fantastic! I had a clip that was just too big to upload and my expensive work software just was too hard to get the file size and quality they require. Using Premiere Elements, I was able to drop in the large clip, indicate it was for YouTube, and the software did the rest...Including logging in and uploading it to my account right from inside the program. No muss, no fuss, just as advertised!

All in all, I think this is one of the best home user packages available. Simple enough for the basic user with access to the more powerful tools if needed.

A bundle primarily for video editing
This software bundle is primarily for people that want to do video editing, because that's how the product synergy goes - Photoshop Elements is extremely useful for making DVD menu templates and still images that can be used in Premiere, but Premiere Elements offers very little to those primarily working with still images (the still images Premiere can pull from videos tend to flicker and be of low resolution).

So, if you're looking to buy this bundle, you need to ask yourself this question: are you interested enough in video editing to pay roughly $50.00 extra for such a program when Windows users get a basic video editor for free (most versions of Vista and XP come with Microsoft Movie Maker, but most people don't realize that they have it installed)? If you've used Movie Maker and you want something more powerful, then this package is a great deal. If not... why not try the free option first before investing in both programs?

As to the individual programs... Longer, more detailed reviews for each can be found on their individual product pages. For those that don't feel like searching, though: Photoshop Elements 6 is one of the best versions of the software I've used in years, and I highly recommend it; Premiere Elements 4, on the other hand, is much less stable than the previous version, and ended up being a disappointment. I can still recommend this bundle, but those purchasing it should be aware that Premiere Elements currently has some issues that Adobe needs to address with a patch (a patch that was not available at the time of this writing).

Note about system requirements: Premiere Elements is listed as requiring an Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron 1.7GHz (or compatible) processor (note the lack of support for AMD). RAM for XP is 512MB, 1GB for Vista. Photoshop Elements' requirements are slightly less, and are listed as only needing an Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Intel Centrino 1.3GHz (or compatible) processor. Photoshop Elements also requires less RAM, and is listed at 256MB minimum.

Elements 6 & Premiere Elements 4 Bundle
Please be aware that Premiere Elements 4 will NOT run on any computer processor that does not support the SSE2 Instruction set. The following comes from an Adobe Tech Note: Important: The following CPUs do not have SSE2 support and will not work with Adobe Premiere Elements 3.x: Intel Pentium III, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon XP, or AMD Athlon XP-M.
Elements 6 does NOT have this limitation. The bundling of the two products would cause one to assume that the requirements for each program was identical.
Elements is a super program. The cost to upgrade from Elements 5 to 6 is questionable. However an upgrade from any other version of Elements is worth the cost. I cannot comment on Premiere since it would not run on my HP computer.
Amazon refunded my money. Adobe ignored my protest that the limitation should appear in bold letters in the advertising literature.
Hurray for Amazon. Shame on Adobe!